· Private foundation
Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMARICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $10,621 |
| SOCEITY OF ILLUSTRATORS | $8,000 |
| CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES | $6,000 |
| NEW SCHOOL KATCHOR | $1,000 |
| COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,000 |
| COMIC BOOKS FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
| CARTOON ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| DARE 2 DRAW | $1,000 |
| SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -64% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +32%
- ALAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +12%
- SOSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CBComic Book Legal Defense Fdone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SCSavannah Colloege of Artone grant, 2020 · $3k
- DPDenver Public Libraryone grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The comic studies society is an interdisciplinary society open to all who share the goals of promoting the critical study of comics, improving comics teaching, and engaging in open and ongoing conversations about the comics world.
To raise appreciation and awareness of illustration in its many forms by providing people of all ages the opportunity to learn directly from master artists and working professionals through exhibitions and workshops provided at public…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Founded by former faculty, staff, and alumni of the columbia college chicago center for book and paper arts, the organizations purpose is to create a new home in chicagoland where artists, writers, readers, and other thoughtful people can…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A COMMITTMENT TO OUR ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds Kessler Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds ARC BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
How this is measured
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